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wives

noun as in married woman

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Mills said to expect more crossovers in the future—the husbands of the Mormon wives are scheduled to visit “Vanderpump Villa” next season, for example—and potential spinoffs.

No one today any longer wishes to hear jokes about nagging mothers-in-law, spendthrift wives or old jalopies, and the men and women who once told them to hardy plaudits are now forgotten.

Some fancy pants politicians & their wives came aboard to take a peek at the obelisk by candlelight.

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A woman abducted by the LRA as a child and forced to become one of Kony's wives said she hoped the move would renew efforts to capture him.

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“They want their country back . . . but they also yearn for recognition and remembrance from that country that no longer exists, from wives and children, from future descendants, from the men they used to be.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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